I would also caution against the Peet Bros if you're using it in an RF environment. My wind sensor dies about once a year. After doing some searching I confirmed my guess - it's likely due to the RF that it's near cooking the reed switches. At something like $45/repair, plus postage, plus downtime, it's grown frustrating after a couple of years.
On Dec 10, 2007 7:00 PM, Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 12:13:06PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > The Lacrosse and Oregon Scientific/Huger/Radio Shack types give you > > lots of sensors out of the box, but they might not last as long. > > I would say that you should avoid LaCrosse equipment at all costs. It is > cheap, fragile, and of low accuracy. > > My LaCrosse unit lasted about 6 months before the rain sensor gave up the > ghost, > and a little longer before the wind sensor died. It is now nothing more than > a temperature and humidity sensor, and of no value for APRS weather (because > it basically causes the probe software to hang until it times out now that > the wind sensor doesn't report properly). > > And from the day I got it, the barometer was a problem, giving extremely poor > quality data (according to the quality control program from the > gladstonefamily.net site). > > Get a good one, don't waste money on LaCrosse junk. > > -- > Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ > Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM > "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is > one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, > oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
